[Tutor] Creating multiple instance names

[Bob Gailer]

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At 04:12 PM 3/14/2003 +0000, Lugo Teehalt wrote:
>Is it possible to use 'for' or 'while' or the like to create
>arbitrarilly many named class instances? Tried to do somethinglike:
>
>for i in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']:
>i = Counter() #Counter being a class
>print a.y, b.y, c.y, d.y # y is a thing from the class e.g. self.y = 0.
>
>(i.e. I'm trying to create four instances named a, b, c and d.)
>[snip]

for i in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']:
   exec(i + ' = Counter()')

--OR--

for i in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']:
   globals[i] = Counter()

(you can also say for i in 'abcd':)

Bob Gailer
mailto:ramrom@earthling.net
303 442 2625

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